What Do You See and Hope for in the Next Few Years in Healthcare?

What Do You See and Hope for in the Next Few Years in Healthcare? (1:01)

People will be taking care of their own health driven by financial need and personal interest says HealthMaker, Philip Hagen, MD. In this video he shares this and other predictions in healthcare for the next few years.

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I think that we will see a progressive evolution if not a small revolution in people taking care of their own health. In part because they realize the need to do it and in part because we can put enough tools in the palm of their hand to do it, and I see this already in my own patients who come in with asking the right questions when they arrive.

So both the financial needs and their personal interest will drive that. I think that we will see a systematization of medicine in the United States but it will be driven largely by external groups, I hope it's by patients, it may be by pairs it may be by the government and I hope it's by organized medicine to start to say, yes we need to work as a whole and we need to work, create a system that's centered around the patient.

About Philip Hagen, MD

Philip Hagen, MD, is medical director of Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth. He says improving engagement and motivation are the keys help patients to embrace wellness and make lasting healthy lifestyle changes.